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for the benefit ofBHARATA [or India universally], — may he be yours 

 in the form of his phallic emblem, and with his mansion doubled. 



VIII. — Whose form, essentially illumined with the fiery light of the 

 immense conflagration, that oft issues from the evil glance of his eye, 

 audibly flashing, darkening even the bow of heaven with the multi- 

 plied dense smoke of trees consumed by that long-standing flame, — 

 and which, uttering a tremendous sound at the commencement of the 

 fiery onset, destroyed even him of the incomparable arrows [Cama or 

 Cupid], and thus became a subject of doubt to the gods beholding it, 

 whether his great periodical destruction of the universe was not 

 perpetually repeated, even in this tranquil time. 



IX. — May this sacred mountain, possessed of the glory of the joy 

 {above mentioned] , and thence called Harsha, on which thus sat the 

 eternal Sambhu, destroyer of Tripura, with the breeze of heaven on 

 his head, protect you ! 



A hero speaks the following verse. 

 X. — " May this mountain protect you, with pure and varied splen- 

 dour resting on its peak as of reddened gold, which the beauty — ah, 

 what, is not that beauty ? of its pleasant gardens, brings delightfully 

 to my ravished bodily sense ! Yet has this mount of Siva no other 

 transcendent and incomparable felicity, but this, that the eternal 

 Sambhu sat there : that is the paramount cause of its loveliness." 



XI. — To that mountain on which the Eight-formed one, the Eternal 

 endued with eight infinite perfections, chose to sit, — no one of equal 

 excellence exists in the world. 



XII. — This temple of the blessed Harsha-deva, splendid by reason 

 of its complement of open chapels around, whose structure is embellish- 

 ed with eggs of gold, delightful for the sweet yellow flowers appended 

 to it, formed into garlands gathered for morning offerings ; a temple 

 vying in loftiness with the peak of Meru itself ; adorned with a 

 door and sacred porch, on which is a finely wrought effigy of the bull 

 of Siva ; distinguished moreover, as the frequent resort of various 

 celestial songsters — surpasses all others. 



XIII. — The first Prince was celebrated by the name of Gu'vaka, the 

 blessed, of the Cha'huma'na (or Chauhan) family, and obtained heroic 

 eminency amidst the multitude of kings in the several worlds from the 

 infernal world of the blessed Nagas upward : the earthly effigy of whose 

 glory shines forth doubly in this excellent house erected to Harsha- 

 deva, and is celebrated by the most excellent of beings. 



XIV. — His son was Chandra Ra'ja', the blessed, of glory pure as the 

 *ky, arrayed iu fervid splendour. And his son was again a splendid king, 



